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'fhe suburban garden clubs which last year played a prominent part in the success of the famous Chicago Garden and Flower Show are taking an even more active interest in the 1928 show~ according to an announcement from the Flower Show committee, issued this week. Where last year the competition was con fined to shadow boxes and table arrangements, this year each club will enter a prize contest for garden and home design. Each club will be given an identical model house and grounds. The house will be decorated, the gardens will be worked out in detail to demonstrate the various artistic effects which may be achieved in small and identical areas. The 1928 show will be held in the exposition halls of Hotel Sherman and a total of 75,000 square feet of space will be devoted to the displays. The dates w~tl b_ e March 24 to April 1. lmproYia~ ftrsr· actual workings of the govenament. As vices of the First Church, 5ci1eatilt. Henry Riggs Rathbone, congress- Mr. Rathbone has been Coalressman- Wilmette, Sunday morning, JalllUUY man-at-large for the state of Illinois at-large for six years, he seemed the at 11 o'clock. and a resident of Kenilworth, spoke at logical ·man to start these lectures. . . Harris hall, Northwestefll university, . ON C'tjiJE TOUR on "The Work.of Congress" last WedThe ·Rev ... Herman W. Meyer, Miss Mary Ott, daughter of Yr. and nesday evening. Many phases of the Prairie avenue, left Wilmette this · M rs. John Nash Ott, 17 Indian Hill intricate machinery of Congress, its Winnetka, was among the north for .a lecture tour in the South. functions, and the tasks of the con- road, shore girls' returning \o Vassar. Miss wiU return the first Sunday in ..-~·""'····, gressional committees were discussed. Ott is in her junior year. Both Miss ary. . The lecture was open to the public. -o1 Ott and her sister, Dorothy, have been This lecture is the first in a series in the East with Mrs. Ott since ChristIllinois has three of the world's . Zl,. of three sponsored by the political mas. Mrs. Ott and Dorothy returned most important and best kn science department at the university this week. bridges. Lectuna at Univen~ .. 0 I ~ Home Ea-.iroaa "The ·life size gardens which will be a dominating attraction of the show, will illustrate the modern fashion of improving the small home grounds," said John A. Servas, manager of the show. "A great change has come about since the day when the home garden consisted of a round bed of red cannas in the front yard and a vegetable plot in the backyard. The improvement .in gard<'n architecture . has been quite as great as the progA ress in small home architecture. distinctive American style of home garden has been developed. But this fashion is still unfamiliar to home owners in general. 11 Perhaps not one home owner in ten has really developed his garden according to the modern fashion and yet everyone nowadays desires to do this. Interest in gardening is widespread and the amateur gardener is always seeking correct information re. gardmg garden design. Stnu Object Leaaoae The Fonvard Look OMORROW'S teleT phone requirements must be foreseen today; the service of the future must be provided for .in the present. In the America of tomorrow new industries will develop, trade will increase, residential sections will replace the vacant areas of today. There must be new telephone buildings and switchboards; millions of miles of new wire and cable; yet a larger army of men and women to build and operate the ever increasing facilities; more and more trained executives to manage and direct. · It costs about $385,000,000 a year to keep ahe~d of America's demand for telephone service. If this vast sum is ·to be spent wisely and efficiently,·future demands must be for ecast with as much precision as is humanly possible so that materials, money, manpower will not be lacking when the need comes. Only through the forward look is. the telephone kept ready to meet the growing demands of a growing nation. "The Flower Show management teels that object lessons in correct garden design which illustrate the wide possibility for beautifying the grounds of every home will be of immense interest and value to those who visit the 1928 show. Life size gardens designed bf. competent landscape architects wdl be built in the Exhibi-· tion hall. Growing plants and Rowers with. real sod and artistic accessories will give these gardens a definite educational value for the amateur gardener. The spaces will be 20 by 20, or 20 1by 40 feet and a different method of improving the small home garden area will be demonstrated in each. Exhibits of garden fhotographs and a continuous series o lectures on all phases of gardening will be additional features of the 1928 show. Mr. Servas S!IYS, "The show will be held just prior to the planting season and the management believes that the educational value of this show will do much to foster the distinctively American development in home gardens. The meeting of the . garden clubs' representatives will be held this month, at which time details of the garden clubs' competition will be settled. The committee is planning many attractive awards for the winning suburban clubs. After spending the holidays with her parents, Mr. and Mrs. Charles W. Triggs of 1041 Ashland avenue, Miss Jane Triggs has returned to Wellesley college, where she is a senior. -oWilliam Edmonds, 1730 Walnut avenue, left for Boston Sunday morning where he will be a student at Northeastern university. I l I · ILLINOIS BELL TELEPHONE COMPANY BELLSYSTDI One Policy ·